Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Treiber.
I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Chizinski, and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with my facts, my fact this week is that on July the 13th, 1930,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle headlined a show at the Royal Albert Hall despite having died six days before.
Did he get booed?
You couldn't be booed off stage, could you?
You mean died in a physical sense, not died in had a really bad gig sense.
Yeah, so basically what happened is that six days previous, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had actually died,
and his family were very spiritual, and they knew that they were going to be reunited with him in some way,
and they thought, why don't we put on effectively a family reunion gig at the Royal Albert Hall,
and they did it as a partial memorial as well,
so it was billed as a memorial, however,
the star bill at the top was that there was going to be a clairvoyant coming along,
there was going to be an empty chair on the stage at the Royal Albert Hall,
and his spirit would be summoned to give a message to say, it's all good, I'm on the other side.
And it was, right?